This is an outdoor herb ritual and we try to work outdoors for a s long as we can. although May, June and July were very hot - August has been wet and cold - night temperatures have been more like early October than August - so it has been a let down in that sense because it actually snowed at Easter in April and even on May 10th, the Hawthorne tree outside the house was completely bare of leaves because I got a photo of it on that day.
So, to sum up, there was no Spring either - just three months of hot weather, then back to the cold again. I think people have been fooled in to thinking it was a good summer ... A workman who came round said he is stocking up with coal for winter - he is expecting a bad one - to pay for the hot weather May to July. But what about all the snow before that? Hadn't we already earned a decent summer? Not that I saw much of it - I was too busy working in the depths of the night.
It was a bit like the line in 'Break On Through To The Other Side' (day destroys the night, night divides the day) in the song by the famous 60's group The Doors. I think the men at the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) ionospheric station must have been interfering with the weather again!
